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Oe khe Evening o f OOOO L Why We Marry Later Than Our Ancestors DODO OOO OOO OOOO OUGU OG aerensee By Helen Oldfield . T generally ts agreed that y position to mi h we hear so much, It the head of a family, In altered, and he who 1 comfortable and assu in himself and his b ct. He and luxuries which oy sities, end, alas, he w ist 1 discover th ago, says Helen Oldfield in the Chi was, stays at home also and re: oor neighbors as a side It is because of all these things and wiser than nature {Intended that wisdom, dodges matrimon: wiles of the ch gen’ nm and popular ha t the pects much more and performs far less than did her mother thirty ago Tribune. She by no means will be content to sit'at home while her husband goes to the club, or, if . aloud from some tiproving boo! be much too up to date to be content to r y and delightful break tn th hat the x he should yromen's point of view, unleee he fe deeply in love, an mt firmly, and ref rmer just as long as he can. So that often it happens that be- men nowadays show much fees dine y than was manifests In the “good old times,” the correct thing for a man to be e days things sadly aro y-five either mist have a wa at income or be possessed of a sublime bellef be ready’ & forego stott have eons mung wife » pleasures ted into almost neces- » present day ex- irs or #0 ngs and darn stockings mplary man his father kK. She wil! h the next ie be the neo} ds w monotony of a month. an of to-day, o fs much older and so understands ag an forgets fore he is aware of It he drifts past the susceptible age and settles down {nto a steady-going, clyb-haun’ bridge and has no tnclir Nevertheless, the fact remat when passion seizes him in { whether he shall marry Her, Ber sake that ho sh part of true love which fits all the exigenc bility with the individual: Only it also Is well to ve s: Ing bachelor, The Battle women only [= zea how tr- ritating to the health, hair, com- plexion and lungs dust ts, they would banish from their homes the baleful Turkis corners, hansings and dra- peries —dust col- ctors and germ breeders. Even carpets, un- Jess kept {n the old-fashioned, house- wifely way, are unhealthy. It fs better to have bare floors, with rugs that may be rolled up and beaten out of doors once a week. But it 1s the so-called “Turkish corner" t does the worst for those who already have weak throats and lungs. This cataclysm of @raperies that {nundates the little flat Parlors or the ends of boarding-house 4rawing-rooms !s a veritable menace to health. Into the creases of the permanent can- opy and the numerous Bagdads which Ine its sides creeps the fine dust that no dust cloth or brush can possibly re- move. It settles on the cross swords and daggers which threaten to tumble onto the unsuspecting heads of the) lounger within the walls of Turk- ish corner, and penetrates the numer- who ion toward m but wheth ould weigh the pros a 1 the beloved from privation. There ts ut one max es of the case~a maxim which Ie: First be sure @ of the woman oe By Margaret Hubbard Ayer. | ranged | most parlors, espec Hors, where two rooms content with his billiards and ge. en a man truly !s fn love, atti! more nestion which ex ts. not he will marry him, ‘Then {t {s for | d cons and remem hat it Is the m es the respons! i then go ahead,” | uu are right re = With Dust. Moreover, a Tu dark its sh, Klsh cor a GARENTAS AERTS iy depths, and, las ast at all, the Turkish corner thing of beauty, Remove it from your parlor and put in Sts stead a big, roomy davenport, a comfortahie divan or just a sofa and the room wil suddenly seem relleved of a great t den, to have recovered after an. til- ness, But ft is {ts health and not its beauty we had Intended to discuss No room can be healthy where dust fs allowed to accumulate, and therefore dust-collecting articles should elther be banished from {t or should be so ar-| i as to he thoroughly brushed and caning day. | Portieres are, of course, a necessity in Hy apartment par- generally have | to be dividnd by heavy curtains. But | sleeping rooms should have no hangings beyond the usual muslin curtains. It beaten 07 a week o: jis better not to have carpets in sleeping rooms. One or two rugs on a bare polished floor are more hygiente and really prettier. Do not have too many plc- tures in this room sacred to rest and ! thought. They also are dust collectors | nd they are distracting to a mind that shuts Itself in here to hide from dis- traction. Have only the pictures that are most highly prized and let this ous embroidered pillows which orna-|chamber be as empty and fresh as ment the seat of this infested place. 'space and air will make it. | _A Hand-Made Gift. Dear Betty: HAT would be suitable to give to a man of about thirty-five? He likes things that are made by the| one who presents them to him, so I} Would like to give him something hat I made myself. 1 am still a young girl, but this man !s a relation to me. He @oes not smoke. Please advise me what to do. A. J. B, If you are clever at crocheting or knitting you might make the man one of the loosely knit ties in Jils favorite oolor, or you could hemstitch him some handkerchiefs and embroider his initial | on them. Both of the: Bropriate presents, An Unworthy Sweetheart. Dear Betty: AM twenty and some time ago I met ® young man of twenty-four. He took me out several times, and also Called at my hou He always sald that he cared the world for me About two weeks ago he asked me to get mar- tied, and I told him if he was satisfied I would be, and he said he would have to ask his mother so there would be no @bjection. He left me that night say- would be ap- Betty Vincent’s Advice on Courtship and Marriage : BOODOHOGEVHGVIGIOGHOWOOOOWGHWGLIEDHII I AGHOVIGOIOISIOSOSy |this will be hard for you to do at first ing he would ‘let me know in about a | week. He has not told me yet, and every time I meet him he does not even | }so much as look at me. Do you think | I should ask him what the trouble ts, | or should IT wait until he speaks to me, | or what should I do? G. D. qhe Young man ts unworthy of your | affection le has made love to you | | | without meaning {t and when he YOu took ft seriously he has ignore you. Do not speak to him about the af- fair. You must give him up, though 45 Loves 20. Dear Betty AM forty-five, and a young gentle- man of twenty js seeking my hand in marriage. I love him, for he {s handsome and many girls are anxtous to make his acquaintance, but he re- fuses them all and desires none but me. | Do you think that tt is proper for me to marry him as lam go old? He loves me so much that he even kissed me one | day when we met A. O. Marriage where there js such a ditter- | ence In ages usually proves unhappy. | and I do not advise you to think ser ously of this young man. His affection | for you may be sincere, but he is not yet old enough to choose a wife, and by accepting him you might bring upor yourself and him great unhappiness, World Daily Magazine, Monday, November 16, 1905. ‘A Flight of Fancy had ac up to the ears, Will make you so sore that y ter an KNOW that you're ossified about you, ¥ take to read s wi yawn tn your fa would consider that you were dege! jating Into a namby-pamby slob be: the privilege of “living ker own tnn hand, that you sea pursults, in which s share, why, you are “holdi your own, with some other woman By T.0. McGill yor" rre ic” wes which the sidewalk sp “demonstrating” a new tollet the drug store-DON'T let this gi SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALMENT: Philip Selwyn has left tie army vecause Bis wife, Alixe, unjustly divorced him mary Jock Ruthven, a sotlilon leader, fuming to New York, Philip falls in 101 With Eileen Errol, 4 of his brother: law, Austin Gerard, Eileen loves Jillip, bur Bot @ says, to marry hin, ' Her Yrotber, Gerald, 9 involved in debt and in threatened disg! by Ruthven and by & Bewly-rich social climber named Neorgard. Philip pays the boy's debt. Alixe becomes inwne, Philip pays for her tarum. These expenditures use up ready cash. He beare that Ruthven divorce Alixe, Philip threatens w thven should the latter purs Now that Alixe ja insa @taratane: hope of marrying [ik Gut of his old life and devotes hin xe, Eileen shyly confesses lier | ‘and he ts forced tu tell her of the new which holds tim to Alixe. Ruthven, time seis secretly to work on welimt: Bary sevengements for divorcing himedit from xe, CHAPTER XII (Continued, i Her Way. HIS, in brief, was Ruthven's gen- | chelme of campaign; and the entire affair had taken shape and owes slowly beginning to move, when Neergard’s iliness can an absolute heck, just as the fret papers were A Revelation of New York Society PPOGDO 90-90 99-4 59O-OO8-G-96 (Copyright, 1907, by Robert Ww. Chambers.) }about to be served on him, There was nothing to do but wait until Neergard got well, because his attorneys simply scoffed tlement ex cu want a suit involving his wife's name while he and Selwyn were in the same atmosphere. ) t any suggestion of set- a, and Ruthven didn't But he could still continue an unobtru- jsive seafch for the whereabouts of his wif which he did, And the chances |were that his attorneys would without great difficulty, because Selwyn {had not the slightest suspicion that he nd her was bei ollowed. In these days Selwyn’s life y thodical and colorless in its routine to the verge of dreariness. When he was not at the Governmept proving grounds on Sandy Hook he re: mained in his room at Lansing's, dog- gedly forcing himself tnte the only al- ternate occupation sufficient to dull the | | sadness of his mind—the preparation | of @ history of British military organ- | ization in India, and its possible appli- cation to present conditions in the Philippines. He had given up going out—made no further pretense; and Boots let him| alone. Once ® week he called at the Ger PDELLOODPBE®OOD DD OLD G94LEG0H0HOHHO OHHH DLLLFHOHDDODOOOHHOPOHOENG -- THE YOUNGER S&S of his big fi laying the foundation for suc- solid foundation with the doubtful scheming PLPPOPE DOOD GEM VHP H OG DODDS 00069300006 299900909 00094990909 OOH O04 ‘ards’, spending most of his t y shoulders, an—extremely g00d sense to see ¢ Nina and Eileen or about to depart for jerald will see the time comes, ‘Don't worry, Austin same thing when #aid Selwyn quietly he's sound at the had not yet gone to pieces, phy go aid him when ald ts if I hadn't taken the ar in the Mbrary would have ide warnth tm a pleasure from time to e may require. There's one thing!-—. Austin considered his cigar end ing {t round and round did go to his sister ‘There's good and he'd probably Elleen had gone to « he might even ha to get him out of hie sere 1 frowned; and Selwyn, absent- ng the dying embers on the Pim was the put up with peated Austin, $s and laying ¢ ross the coals, Gerald's fondness for that you wanted make all kinds of excuses if I had given him an noi have been up to his ears in debt He saw I'd stand no fool- dare contract ie to let up on And all 1 have to gay 4s that it's for- tinued fo attend of that heaven which seems so largely Occupied in fulfilling the desires of th their own commercial pros: | >! hims leeway he'd when he came around For you're just the sort of neck before he can see his way yourself if that young bogun to show a peculiar yours U jal development | #9mMe Promise often of his grat the results of my * sald Selwyn position, the friends | Selwyn laughed, “What did you have Not ‘that the’ boy t* dotmg much of &| when you married my sister?” business yet," he would sey with @ tol-| Austin, still red and dignified, said; “Ged Selwyn treet hee em ent 1 ENT ot RAP resem Ave tinre enn e mn ences omen em cones me ote persisted Austin nly @ manly fellow, _ a Married Man 4 yy Clarence L. Cullen. OWN ne, This me of the kinder- 1e that you ought « time morning, after gate ate the night before, issing from your her at the break- as become a sleep: reflect that these involuntary gnations on the don't get yourself {hy r of Peace ard cheap at the price, it. Argaing it out When you go to Chicago on a Itt business trip, always write "9.30 P. J after the date in your daily letter home, no matter what hour of the morning you write the letter hus she'll know that you're not raising the very old re | dickens at all hours of the night out in. Hey's “Ode to the West | Chi Gus (ean When she gives you a letter to mi would very likely | always It out to the post-box b and privately she) t ir teeth. Otherwise she'll ve you've mailed it, because nal funnyists have been about thirty years owever, If If, after you've only he accuses you of being pickled denyin stutter, and then She complains that y sentiment or poesy ae She incessantly and rampantly claty little trip out of towny bag upon arriving fon, always notice she has packed her pieture in If it's th » mention tn your to her what a solace to you “aly CLE a If it's not there, make t improbably having to de an awful roar about {t when you come ,» and tell her that you were never When she to use $285 worth of | So hurt in your life before. This ts Ine ab to ride hong from downtown stuff. Remember it eeeutne Ole ay ¢ ttle, don't ‘ourse, you're bound to look more her how she used to ma ked and hollow-eyed When you get home after a long rail- e got to conquer this besetting sin | road jour although she assumes, out Wher ely know what t 1 ounp er life means, But If she cate! ng in harmless little mental | whet is ot asked to | er for i sa or less tired, pe yur still unmarried bachelor selfish ruffians and insensate er this when It is on tongue to inadvertently ivenner dabs at her eyes t toa Inquis wh f > to take ng $5 Aa crac r seats, don't try to] them to her, josh her alc y offering to tak y and mag- to @ 10-cent 5 She and thea ath that some i actor person of the s is just the grand- thing that ever was, and rumblingly. prstand what you're a » and will take tt thal brutally ridiculing her “‘{deals,’ ss that you are. of humor lumps has it ts NITE jab tHe youne inc Manny fone ar spray yo roat-lapel with the new scent stuff, If you do you' ave some xplaining to get away with when you rv HED plain fitted gulmpe is much tn demand just now, and this one an be made of Hn- ing material and faced to form the yoke and with Jeeves ta match or we other & terlal throughout. It is absolutely plain, and {t fits the figure so that tt anata any blouse without additional bulk, There are both plain, closely fitting two- slee p that are cut in sand either be used sepa rately, as liked. ‘The gulmpe is made with fronts and backs, and can be faced either to-sform a yoke, as illustrated, or to the waist lir as liked. he quantity of material required for the medium size is 2% yards 21, 1% yards 36 Inches wide, with 2% yards I» or %; yard 4+ Inches wide for yoke and ps, to make as istrated Pattern No neasure G160 {s cut {n sizes f 40 and 42 Inch bust pai Cull or send by mail toTHE EVENING WORLD MAY MAN- to TON FASHION BURIAU, No. 132 Bast Twenty-third street, New Obtat York. Send 10 cents in coin or stamps for each pattern ordered. ‘These IMPORTANT—Write your name and address plalaly, sod al- Patterns ways specify size wanted. GOG4-9BDDELGOQILDODDD SID PGOIHPSOHOVOODDOFIDLID ODE DIOLOPGGE OPA OOPDOPEPRORGIOG | By Robert W. Chambers, ? Vhe Firing Line’’ and “A Fighting Chance.” Author of $464948O.06-09209O9900 OOo. that coat of yours ts nearly There's Scotch over t 1 know havea “Nonsense,” said Selwyn, coloring. sil ‘ 5 funny Mke tis. © © What do you do wit pea . 1 There's cold rground if you're money? Invest St, of course, but ae ought to let me place {t. You 1 r a ered nd ante spend any; you should have a decent !* t the tugs io0d~ little sum tucked away by, this time ' or Do your Chaosite experiments cost dood: elwyn, Tee hing now?” ting F No; the Government {8 conducting He ha ning very them wi he s sister and Good business. What does the t Eileen W t lat rover they Government think of the p we to dream @ now?” bit } hi I can't tell yet,” sald t half an hour lessly. ‘There's a plate d ive ar) warn to-morrow; it represents tion « be ala the side armor of one of the new 22.0% N ‘ SUNN. BLUE pe ton battleships. * * © I hope to y—had ag ; 4 par a Oh!—with a bursting charge?" F lark route ard, wheu he heard @ footfall om _Belmye nodded and rested his head Sane taped | nee n his han Mat es rernains |#100D8 Gerald tn overcoat and hit, A ilttle tucer Austin cast the remain ntly coward the stairs. s clgar from him, straightened up, 1, patted his walstcoat, and Hello, old fellow’ he satd, surprised, ked wisely a. the cat I didn't know you were in the house.” I'm going to, bed," he announced,| The boy hesitated, turned, placed Boots {sto bring back Nina and Eljeen, something just outside the doorway, amd + * © Yoy don't mind, do you, Phiit {came quickly into the room, pts" You used to be fastidious, De I've a busy day to-morrow, * © © oem. (To Be Continued)